Industry and business

Deakin has a long history of working with local and international industry and business to turn ideas into commercial reality, solve real world problems and provide current and future employees with the skills they need for 21st century careers. What can we help your business with?

Turn your ideas into reality

Our world-class R&D capabilities make a real difference to industries as diverse as health, engineering, machine learning, artificial intelligence, IT and renewable energy.

From big companies to small, we can help you grow your idea from a concept to reality, offering our expertise in a range of sectors and access to industrial scale infrastructure and funding and co-location opportunities.

How we can help

Let us help you

Training

We can help you develop your employees’ skills with tailored and measurable training and education programs. We also assist with professional development, workforce planning and talent management through our world-first system of independently verified, evidence-based employability credentials.

Workplace learning

Our faculties work closely with industry and business to develop course content, source guest lecturers who are experts in their commercial fields and give students workplace opportunities that enhance their skills and employability.

DeakinTALENT – branding, connecting, recruiting

The DeakinTALENT team want to develop tailored, mutually beneficial partnerships with a diverse range of organisations, to generate employment experiences for our students and graduates.

We work closely with industry and business to produce graduates with the skills you need by seeking input into our curriculum development and through work experience, internships and graduate engagement programs.

Global connections

Strong international partnerships are vital to success in a globally connected world. Deakin is a leader in this space, establishing international partnerships with over 300 partners in more than 50 countries.

Build our communities

Deakin partners with Australian
and international organisations to provide better and more accessible
individual educational outcomes and to positively contribute to community
growth and sustainability.

We strive to be an integral part
of our local and international communities, contributing to economic growth and
development and fostering social and cultural connections.

Through our research and
innovation partnership with
Deakin we’re often exploring
the bigger questions and
not knowing what answers
we’re going to get. These sorts
of projects are a fundamental
part of our football program,
in an industry where a
competitive edge can make
all the difference.

sophia samartzis

assistant general manager- Geelong Football Club

Deakin Invenio

Deakin's online research hub, Invenio, unveils the exceptional innovation and research being conducted through our world-class research institutes and strategic research centres.

Discover our latest achievements and how we're building Deakin's global research footprint across the four key themes.